Geek of the Week - Rob Blokzijl
       
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       07/01/1993 - Rob Blokzijl
       
       Carl Malamud interviews Rob Blokzijl, network manager for NIKHEF, the
       Dutch Insitute of High Energy Physics. NIKHEF has been one of the key
       sites for networking in Europe and Bockzijl has been the force behind
       that presence. During the darkest years of OSI hysteria, NIKHEF
       helped the lead the move to install and operate real networks around
       Europe. NIKHEF, geographically and spiritually colocated with CWI,
       the mathematics institute, has helped make Kruislaan 409 in Amsterdam
       one of the key hubs in European networking.
       
       In this interview, we learn about the birth of RIPE, the IP users
       group for Europe. We also hear about what it was like to try and put
       networks together in an era of massive centrally planned information
       policies and functionally obese networking protocols.
       
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